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Call for chapters: Post-secondary education and technology

Deadline: 30 June 2011
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Post-secondary education and technology: a global perspective on opportunities and obstacles to development.
International and Development Education Series published by Palgrave Macmillan Publishing

This volume of the International and Development Education series examines trends and challenges for expanding access to post-secondary education via technology through a set of case studies and analyses written by people involved in relevant projects around the world.

Submissions for CIES 2011

Proposals are currently being accepted for CIES 2011. Visit the conference website for complete details about submitting to the general conference and the ICT4D SIG.

Drexel University Virtual Symposium Series

Drexel University's School of Education and Wainhouse Research is organizing a virtual symposium this year around the theme: ‘Education for Everyone: Expanding Access through Technology.” Click here for further details.

ICT4D SIG Business Meeting

The ICT4D SIG will hold its annual business meeting at CIES 2011 in Montreal. Details concerning the time and precise location of the meeting will be posted before the CIES 2011 conference.

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Written by Tryggvi Thayer
Wednesday, 04 January 2012 16:42
CIES 2012 to be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico The Comparative and International Education Society will hold it's 56th annual meeting and conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico on April 22-27, 2012. The theme for this year's conference is "The Worldwide Education Revolution". The theme is intended prompt critical exploration of the significant worldwide increase in educational participation at all levels over the past 150 years. In recent decades information and communication technology has played an especially critical role in the education revolution as was reflected in the excellent proposals received by the Technology4Development Special Interest Group following the call for proposals for the 2012 conference last fall. The 2012 CIES Conference is hosted by Pennsylvania State University's Office of Global Programs and Comparative and International Education Program. See the conference website for more information.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 04 January 2012 16:55

ICT4D SIG Highlighted Sessions at CIES 2011

The annual CIES conference is upon us again. This year's conference, hosted by McGill University, will be held in Montreal, Quebec. There are two ICT4D highlighted sessions this year. Both sessions will be on Wednesday, May 4, in the Mackenzie Room of the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel. The first session, titled "ICTs and development: Theoretical underpinnings", will be from Noon-1:30. This will be immediately followed by the second session, "Tools of ICT4D: Improving education and human capital", at 1:45-3:15.

The ICT4D Business Meeting will be held on Sunday, May 1, at 3:45-5:15, in the Gatineau Room of the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel.

ICT4D Highlighted Sessions.
Session 381. ICTs and development: Theoretical underpinnings.
Wednesday, May 4, 12:00 to 1:30 pm.
Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth Hotel: Mackenzie

Presentations:
Using ICT to evaluate personal and the social impact of economic development.
Dorothy Ettling, University of the Incarnate Word

Virtual band-aids for actual scars? The impact of ICTs on victims of violence.
Sahar D. Sattarzadeh, University of Maryland, College Park

Digital transformation of international students in college in the U.S.
Olena Zhadko, University of Missouri-St.Louis

Radio and distance education: A temporal comparative analysis.
Jules Sisk, McGill University

Chair: Jayson W. Richardson, University of Kentucky

Session 406. Tools of ICT4D: Improving education and human capital.
Wednesday, May 4, 1:45 to 3:15 pm.
Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth Hotel: Mackenzie

Presentations:
Liberating communities around the world through voice technology.
Brittany Lynk, Teachers College, Columbia University; Jeffrey Lee, Azusa Pacific University, USA; Christine McCaleb, Teachers College, Columbia University; Sydney Lambson, Peace Corps Volunteer-Botswana

Who's ready for mobile learning?
Tutaleni I Asino, The Pennsylvania State University; Stacey I deShield, The Pennsylvania State University; Cynthia M. Petrovich-Corn, The Pennsylvania State University

Principal's technological leadership and the effectiveness of teacher's class website management in Taiwan.
Li-Ling Wang, National Chiayi University; Fang-Ming Hung, National Chiayi University; Yu-Liang Chang, Graduate Institute of Educational Administration and Policy Development, National Chiayi University, Taiwan; Hsuan-fu Ho, National Chiayi University

Chair: Jeffrey Lee, Azusa Pacific University, USA

ICT4D SIG Business Meeting
The ICT4D SIG held its annual business meeting at the CIES conference in Chicago on March 1, 2010. Members discussed membership, the new ICT4D SIG website and various othe business matters. Membership in the SIG doubled this year. This reflects the growing interest in ICT4D but is also in part due to the new registration format which allows CIES members to sign up for SIGs when they register for the conference. The increased membership this year allowed the SIG to host two highlighted sessions. The SIG hopes to continue increasing its membership next year and its number of highlighted sessions. Finally, it was decided that SIG leadership posts will be unchanged in the next year, with Jayson Richardson (University of North Carolina Wilmington, soon to be University of Kentucky) and Jeffrey Lee (Asuza Pacific University) co-chairing the SIG and Tryggvi Thayer (University of Minnesota) acting as information office.

CIES 2011 in Montreal

The CIES 2011 Conference will be held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on May 1 to May 5, 2011. The conference will be hosted by McGill University. The conference website (http://cies2011.mcgill.ca) contains detailed information on the conference, submissions guidelines, registration and accommodations. The final submission deadline is November 14, 2010.

The theme for the 2011 conference is "Education is that which liberates". The theme is particularly suited to the ICT4D agenda as it refers to the role of education in an increasingly technology driven and globalized world. The ICT4D SIG will, as usual, host several thematic sessions at the conference. Proposals can be submitted to the ICT4D SIG specifically or to the general conference program. Membership in the ICT4D SIG is required if submitting a proposal to the SIG. Submitters will be asked about membership in SIGs when submitting proposals and can register for the appropriate SIGS at that time. See the conference website for complete details about submitting proposals. Submitters who have already familiarized themselves with the submission guidelines can go directly to the online submission system at http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/cies/cies11/.

ICT4D SIG at CIES 2010

The 54th Annual Conference of Comparative and International Education Society will hold be held in Chicago, IL from March 1-5, 2010. The ICT4D SIG held two highlighted sessions at CIES 2010.

The title of the first session was "21st Century Technology in Nepal: How Youth Technology Leaders Communicate and Collaborate in Rural Himalayan Villages". The presenters were:

Sydney Lambson (ProLiteracy Worldwide)

Courtney Peterson (Community Development Network)

Brittany Lynk (Community Development Network)

The discussant was Tiffany Z. Ivins (Brigham Young University).